Projects, and what actually made them hard
Client names are withheld where the facility asked us to. The constraints, the phasing and the outcomes are exactly as they happened.
Healthcare
Central Chiller Plant Replacement, Acute-Care Hospital
Two 800-ton chillers, towers, primary/secondary pumping and plant controls replaced across two summers without a single loss of cooling to the surgical tower.
- Plant capacity
- 1,600 tons
- Duration
- Two phased summers
Life Science
GMP Cleanroom Suite Buildout, Therapeutic Company
ISO Class 7 and 8 manufacturing suites built into shell space — 100% outside air, pressure cascade, HEPA ceilings and process piping delivered against a fixed occupancy date.
- Classified area
- ISO 7 / ISO 8
- Outside air
- 100% OA with energy recovery
Government
Building Automation Retrofit, Federal Office Building
Pneumatic and orphaned proprietary controls across nine floors replaced with open BACnet DDC — occupied throughout, Davis-Bacon compliant.
- Floors
- 9, fully occupied
- Points
- 2,400+
Education
Campus-Wide Steam Trap Survey & Condensate Repair
Over 600 steam traps surveyed and tagged, failed traps replaced and condensate return rebuilt — recovering a substantial share of lost steam and make-up water.
- Traps surveyed
- 600+
- Found failed
- Roughly one in five
Healthcare
Rooftop Air Handler Replacement, Hospital Patient Tower
A 60,000 CFM patient-tower air handler removed and replaced over a single weekend crane pick, with temporary air maintaining pressure relationships throughout.
- Unit size
- 60,000 CFM
- Outage window
- One weekend
Data Center
Critical Cooling Expansion, Enterprise Data Center
Chilled water CRAH capacity added and containment installed in a live room running hot — no downtime, no loop drain, rack temperatures monitored throughout.
- Downtime
- None
- Loop drains
- Zero
Healthcare
Medical Gas & Sterilizer Piping, Surgery Expansion
Oxygen, medical air, nitrous and vacuum extended into four new operating rooms with ASSE 6010 brazing and full third-party verification on first pass.
- Operating rooms
- 4 new
- Brazing
- ASSE 6010 certified
Commercial
Retro-Commissioning & Controls Optimization, Office Tower
Chronic tenant complaints and rising energy cost traced to control sequences, terminal units and a mis-set plant — corrected without replacing major equipment.
- Approach
- Retro-commissioning first
- Major equipment replaced
- None
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